An American Life
New York: Pocket Books, 1992. 1st Pocket Bks Printing. 748, illus., index, damp stains to a few pages (no pages stuck), top edge stained. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1992. 1st Pocket Bks Printing. 748, illus., index, damp stains to a few pages (no pages stuck), top edge stained. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 748 pages. Illustrations. Index. Some soiling and sticker residue to DJ, some soiling and sticker residue. Black line on bottom edge. Sticker scuff on fep. The former president relates the story of his public and private life from his modest beginnings in the Midwest, through a distinguished film career, to a second career in politics. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 until 1960. He escalated an arms race with the Soviet Union and transitioned Cold War policy from détente to rollback. He also survived an assassination attempt, fought public sector labor unions, spurred the war on drugs, and ordered the 1983 invasion of Grenada. Reagan left the presidency in 1989 with the American economy having seen a significant reduction of inflation, the unemployment rate having fallen, and the United States having entered its then-longest peacetime expansion. His presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered a prominent conservative figure in the United States. Evaluations of his presidency among historians and scholars tend to place him among the upper tier of American presidents. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 405, wraps, illus., notes, index, covers slightly worn and soiled. More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, c1988. First Printing. 21 cm, 136, wraps, illus., bibliography, glossary, pencil erasure on half-title. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1986. 21 cm, 105, wraps, figures, endnotes. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. 240, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1987. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 69 p. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Notes. More
Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Presumed first paperback printing. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 325, [7] pages. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on the fep by the author. Inscription reads To Nelson Ledsky With best wishes Alan Sherr 12/88. Cover has some wear and soiling. Alan B. Sherr is an American lawyer, specializing in the field of Intellectual Property, International Corporate Law, Russian Corporate Law, Administrative Law. Nelson C. Ledsky was the director of National Democratic Initiative (NDI)’s Eurasia programs for many years and a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service who retired with the rank of ambassador. Upon his retirement from the State Department in 1992, Ambassador Ledsky joined NDI, where he took over the reins of the Institute’s nascent democratic development program in Eurasia and built it into an operation with activities and partners in more than a dozen countries and a first-rate reputation for navigating challenging political environments. He served in the White House from 1987 to 1989 as a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for European and Soviet Affairs, and held numerous other State Department posts, including principal deputy director of the policy planning staff, U.S. minister in Berlin, deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations and director for Southern Europe. He was also director of the State Department's Olympic Boycott Office in 1980 – 1981 and had postings in Bonn, Germany; Enugu, Nigeria; and Georgetown, Guyana. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 435, wraps. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, c1996. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 272, references, index, DJ slightly worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Place_Pub: New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 272, notes and references, bibliography, index, DJ slightly worn, creased, and soiled. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Trade paperback. xxi, [3], 209, [3] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Endnotes. Selected bibliography. Index. Introduction by Eugene V. Rostow. Covers somewhat worn and soiled, tear at top rear cover. This work deals with moral Dilemmas in the nuclear age. It addresses Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Strategy. Topics such as arms control, deterrence, arms reduction, and Just War Doctrine are addressed. Additionally considerations of military necessity and supreme emergency are covered. Aspects of the Strategic Defense Initiative and force modernization are discussed. More
Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1996. 257, illus., notes, index, 1/4" tear at top edge of front DJ. More
Philadelphia, PA: University of PA Press, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 247, wraps, pencil erasure on half-title. More
New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, 167, [7] pages. Illustrations. Figures. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Horton Guyford Stever (October 24, 1916 – April 9, 2010) was an American, physicist, educator, and engineer. Guyford Stever was chairman or member of numerous advisory committees to the U.S. government. The NACA's Special Committee on Space Technology, also called the "Stever Committee," was among the better-known of these. It was a special committee that was formed to coordinate various branches of the Federal government, private companies and universities within the United States with NACA's objectives and also harness their expertise in order to develop a space program. Heinz Rudolf Pagels (February 19, 1939 – July 23, 1988) was an American physicist, a professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pagels' work in chaos theory provided the inspiration for the character of Ian Malcolm in Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981. First Printing. 209, illus., appendices, bibliography, index, DJ soiled and edges worn: small tears, small pieces missing, sm rough spot front DJ. More
London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1986. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 90 p. 22 cm. Notes. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. First? Printing. 416, footnotes, notes, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 416, [10] pages. Footnotes. Notes. Index. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. The book includes a Preface, Prologue, Notes, and Index. Part One describes Offense; Part Two describes Defense. DJ has some wear and soiling. Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. He was president of Brookings from 2002 to 2017. Following Bill Clinton's election as president, Talbott was invited into government where he served at first managing the consequences of the Soviet breakup as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the New Independent States. After leaving government, he was for a period Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Talbott was the sixth president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 2002 to 2017. At Brookings, he was responsible for formulating and setting policies, recommending projects, approving publications and selecting staff. He brings to Brookings the experience of his careers spanning journalism, government service and academe, and his expertise in US foreign policy with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia and nuclear arms control. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 416, [10] pages. Footnotes. Notes. Index. Signed on fep. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. Sticker residue on front of DJ. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Corner of some pages crease Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. In the 1980s, he was Time's principal correspondent on Soviet-American relations, and his work for the magazine was cited in the three Overseas Press Club Awards won by Time in the 1980s. Talbott also wrote several books on disarmament. Talbott was invited into government where he served at first managing the consequences of the Soviet breakup as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the New Independent States. After leaving government, he was for a period Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He is currently the president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. At Brookings, he is responsible for formulating and setting policies, recommending projects, approving publications and selecting staff. He brings to Brookings the experience of his careers spanning journalism, government service and academe, and his expertise in US foreign policy with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia and nuclear arms control. More
New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 416, [10] pages. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Inscription reads: To Dan--Who shares his father's special place in our lives. Thanks for your friendship! Strobe Talbott, August 24, 1988. The book includes a Preface, Prologue, Notes, and Index. Part One describes Offense; Part Two describes Defense. DJ has some wear and soiling. Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. He was president of Brookings from 2002 to 2017. Following Bill Clinton's election as president, Talbott was invited into government where he served at first managing the consequences of the Soviet breakup as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the New Independent States. After leaving government, he was for a period Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Talbott was the sixth president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 2002 to 2017. At Brookings, he was responsible for formulating and setting policies, recommending projects, approving publications and selecting staff. He brings to Brookings the experience of his careers spanning journalism, government service and academe, and his expertise in US foreign policy with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia and nuclear arms control. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. More
Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 628, illus., footnotes, appendix ("In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer"), index. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986. Second Printing. 238, wraps, notes, index, edges soiled, covers somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on half-title. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986. Fifth Printing. 238, notes, index, slight soiling to DJ. More
New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 576, [2] pages. Includes Prologue, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Sources, and Index. Also includes Situational Awareness, with chapters on A Time to Kill, Star Power, Sea Power, and Arming the Eye; The Ultimate High Ground, with chapters on Unseen, Undetected, Unspoken; Detection Stories; Making War, Seeking Peace; Space Power; and A Time to Heal. In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist and author. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium. Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. Avis Lang is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium. For half a decade, she edited Tyson’s Natural History magazine column, Universe, parts of which became the basis for his Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, and later edited his anthology Space Chronicles. More